[oi-dev] Compiler migration #2

[Luca De Pandis]

> For practical purposes, the important
> thing is to get OI repos to build with *any* relatively recent free
> compiler (be it GCC or clang).
>From GCC website:
3.4.3 November 4, 2004 ---> (~8 years and 9 months ago)

It's not relatively recent. It's paleolithic, man.

The only possible workarounds are build a recent gcc version yourself or use 
SFEgcc package, but the last option is not a viable alternative if your CPU is 
not SSE2-capable.
So, not every users are able to use that compiler/runtime.

The questions that i asked are:
1) Since OI has two default compilers (one for illumos development and one for 
the rest), are there technical reasons that push back oi devs to upgrade gcc?
2) Would not it be better for all of us release OI with two compilers, one for 
Illumos development (4.4.4) and one for the rest (latest release)?



Best regards,
Luca De Pandis